Chapter 6
I drive around for hours with Crystal’s words ringing in my ears. I don’t know why her story hit me so hard, but it did. Anger over the way she’s treated Pippin through the years wars with compassion for the young, pregnant girl who was thrown out of her home.
Yes, she’s a grown-up now and should know better. But I can also imagine how difficult life must be without the support of family. Of anyone.
My sister and I were lucky; Ma was a terrific parent. She raised us herself after Dad died in a car accident two months before Aubrey was born and I don’t remember much about him. Ma never remarried or even dated again after she lost him.
“He was the love of my life,” she always said. “Why would I want someone else? Besides, I got you rascals.”
And no matter how busy she was work
